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Letterdeen
Trip No.2 Date Added: 28th Apr 2019
Site Type: Standing Stone (Menhir)
Country: Ireland (Republic of) (Co. Galway)
Visited: Yes on 2nd Sep 2012. My rating: Condition 4 Ambience 4 Access 3
Letterdeen submitted by bernard-yves on 8th May 2006. This stone is located on D37 647525
and GPS N53°30,369'W10°02,441'
Ambience 3, Access 5
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Log Text: Letterdeen Menhir :
This 160cm tall Menhir sits on a patch of grass surrounded by salt marsh, at the edge of a small bay on the Atlantic Ocean. The Granite Menhir has 4 sides that are roughly aligned to the cardinal points.
This whole area is littered with Prehistoric sites (About 40 are documented within a 10km radius of this Menhir)
It would have been quite a sight around 4,000 years ago, with the Menhir overlooking a beautiful little fishing bay with several islands, and Letterdeen Tomb a few hundred metres up the hill to the West.
*Getting There ; About an hours walk from Clifden Bus Stop (3.05km uphill)
Get off the bus and follow Market Street up to Main Street and turn right, walk along Main Street until you come to the petrol station and take a left up Westport Road (N59)
You have to follow this road for 2.45km (It is all uphill) You come to a small road turning left and running down to Streamstown Bay, once there you cant miss the Menhir.